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| Getting GATO and Ray's Maze 1.0 Working On System 7 |
Posted by: benbini on 2022-08-23 11:08:40
Hi all, as noted in topic, I'm interested in whether it's possible to get the early Mac games GATO and RM 1.0 working on hardware running System 7.5 (this hardware cannot boot System 6 or earlier). Currently GATO boots but quits after some fairly spectacular video glitches, while RM quits with "Error 1" shortly after loading the menus.
Has anyone got these two games working in >= System 7.0? I'm well aware of the existence of emulators, but would rather run off OG hardware, and am wondering whether there are any patches to the software and/or system adjustments (turning off 32 bit addressing) that folks have done to get these two classics working. |
Posted by: olePigeon on 2022-08-23 13:45:16
I've had good luck getting older games to run on System 7.1 Pro by turning off 32-bit memory addressing and setting the color mode to what is expected of the game (usually B&W.) |
Posted by: benbini on 2022-08-26 21:22:47
I've had good luck getting older games to run on System 7.1 Pro by turning off 32-bit memory addressing and setting the color mode to what is expected of the game (usually B&W.) Sadly I'm on a machine (Powerbook 520c) where it isn't possible to turn off 32-bit addressing. However, I poked into RM using ResEdit just now, and noticed some SIZE resources that included switches for whether the app was 32-bit compatible or not. Turns out all I had to do for RM was mark them "compatible" and the game booted right up!
GATO I suspect won't be so easy to get running, I'll investigate in the coming days. |
Posted by: olePigeon on 2022-08-27 16:38:46
That's a handy trick. Sounds like it'd make for a very useful drag & drop utility where you can drop older games on it and switch the flag. May or may not work, but it's worth a try. |
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